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Elicit
"Elicit" in a Sentence (16 examples)
We plan to elicit opinions from the public.
Tom tried to elicit a response from Mary.
Most native patterns, presented to most native speakers, would elicit: "I've never heard that."
Everyone knows that luck and wealth elicit envy.
I had often endeavoured to elicit from my companion what had first turned his mind in the direction of criminal research, but had never caught him before in a communicative humour.
He tried to elicit a response from her.
She tried to elicit a response from him.
That's sure to elicit a smile.
Demonstrations typically elicit a strong response that has in the past included the use of tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and live ammunition against participants, and occasionally have devolved into looting, vandalism and acts of arson.
Narcissists often play the victim card to elicit sympathy and manipulate others into feeling sorry for them.
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Shouts of laughter were elicited, smart biddings drawn out, from the whispers of a timid miss, to the stentorian voice of a fox-hunting squire, and not a few fracas from parties either contending for a supposed prize, or disclaiming their chance for it,...
Elizabeth's queenship elicited her subjects' fantasies and fears that she was, as Shakespeare's Cleopatra puts it, “no more but e'en a woman,” and that a woman ruling over men would necessarily subject her entire realm to unbridled feminine sexual desire.
Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.
Did you elicit a response?
He visited three department stores in New York and asked the attendant a question that would elicit the answer fourth floor; for example, he might have asked Excuse me, where are women's shoes?
An elicit act of equity.
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